Nut and fruit bowl.



M. DAVIS NUT AND FRUIT BOWL.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 28! I916- RENE-WED JULY '7- I918.

Patented Aug. 27, 1918..

. VIVIQR'IONDAVIS, or Nnw YortK, N. Y.

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Specification ofletters iatent PZttQIltQd Aug. 2'7, 1918.

Applicationfiled June 28, 1916', Serial No. 106,405. Renewed July 17, 1918. Serial No. 245,403;

To all whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that I, MORTON DAVIS, a citi' zen of the United States, and a resident of- New York, county and State of New York,

have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Nut and Fruit Bowls, of

receptable having an elevated carrier with apertures or pockets to allow a number of implements. to be removably mounted therein for ready use by the consumer of the contents of the bowl. 4

Other objects of the invention are to'pro vide in the receptable: under the'carrier a pocket member toco-act with the carrier for properly supporting the implements as well as tending to prevent the interior of the receptable from being damagd;-and to pro vide a nut and fruit bowl of a simple construction which may be made in various sizes of plain, or very ornamentahdesigns'.

A practical embodiment of the invention" is represented in the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views, the said invention being more fully described hereinafter, and then pointed out in the claims at the end of the description.

In the drawing, Figure 1 is a perspective view of one form of nut and fruit bowl embodying my invention.

Fig. 2 is a top view of the the bowl.

, Fig. 3 is an enlarged fragmentary view showing a section taken through the carrier of the bowl.

carrier used in Fig. 4 is a top plan of a slightly different form of the carrier.

Fig. 5 is a longitudinal vertical section taken through a slightly different form of the bowl, and a Fig. 6 is a view looking down on the carrier of the bowl shown in Fig 5.

The nut and fruit bowl has a receptable 10 which may be of any desired shape and size, though the bowl is preferabl round with-an" open top for' holding a suitable quantity of nuts, fruit and; other edibles bowl for convenient use by the consumer, in the receptable lOi's provided a carrieig'as 12. The carrier 12 has asta tiona ry post 13 which maybe of any suitable type, though thispostis preferably composed of a bolt 14 with a threaded lower end and head 15 on its upper end; Thethreaded end" of the bolt-14 ispassed through an opening provided'through the center of the bottom of tllBflGQGPtttClGlO, and on this threaded. "end of the bolt isra nut16 which is screwed so as toengage the underside of the bottom of the receptacle. the bolt above-"the bottomof thereceptacleis a sleeve 'l6 which is of a length less than thepart ofthe bolt betweenthe receptacle and the head 15 of Y the bolt. 'On' the bolt 14 between its head and the sleeve '16 is an. annular member or disk", or plate 117 which is longitudinallydisposed'so as to overhang the post'13 in an? elevatedposition above-the interior of the receptacle. Through the disk 17 may be a a nut cracker to be removably inserted therein for supporting the implement in an upright position, and also through the disk may be a number of spaced smaller orifices 19 for allowing a number of nut pickers to be removably mounted on the disk preferably in upright positions, as shown.

Then the bowl is made to hold especially fruit, instead of the orificed disk 17 I prefer to employ a form of annular member, or disk, or plate, as 20 Fig. 4. The disk 20 is mounted on the bolt 14 between its head 15 and the sleeve 16 so as to overhang the post 13 in an elevated position above the interior of the receptacle 10 similar to the arrangement of the orificed disk 18. At spaced intervals through the disk 20 are a number of orifices 21 in the forms of slots disposed radially with respect to the post 13 so that implements, such as fruit knives, may be inserted through each slot for being disposed in upright positions.

The implements when mounted in the orificed, or slotted disks of the carrier 12 should be arranged so that their pointed ends will number of spaced orifices; as'18, ofdiameters'to permit the ends of the handles of be on the top of the interior ofthe 'receptacle 10, and to prevent the implements from damaging the surface of thereceptacle-"as well as holding them in upright positions, on the bolt let of the carrier 12, and between the lower end of the sleeve 16 and. the receptacle is a pocketmember 22 which maybe of a formhavinga substantiallycup-shaped body 23 surrounding the bolt and the sleeve of the carrieras well as having an outwardly projecting annular flange 24.; The lower ends of the implements when dlsposed 1n the disks of the carrier 12 will rest in this pocket and a number ofnut pickers to be removably inserted therein lna manner similar to the use of the carrier 12; Thus by the use of this bowl nuts, fruit and like ediblesmaybe temptingly displayed as'well'as being convenient for consumptionin dining rooms and elsewhere. 7 a

In the foregoing description, I have em bodied the preferred torin of my invention,

but I do not wish to be understood as limiting myself thereto, as Iv am aware that m0di-' Copies hi this patent mayibe obtained for five-cents each,- by 'addres 7 Washington, D. G.

any of the advantages or" this invention, therefore I reserve to myself the right to make suclr'changes as fairly fall within the scope thereof. Havlngthus described my invention, I

claim as new and desire to secure by- Letters Patent 1. In a nut and fruitbowl,a'receptaclc, a post projecting upwardlyv from the interior of said receptacle, a series of pockets in said post spaced radially around the center thereof, each pocketbeing adapted to hold a nut pick-therein, and a pair of larger adjacent pockets in said post adapted in conjunction to hold'the handles of a nut cracker.

2. An article 01"- the character described comprising a hollow bowl-like receptacle having upstanding walls, a,- projecting part supported in the center of the receptacle and terminating substantially in line with the upper edge of the walls, said upstanding part havingarelatively wide top portion formed with a plurality of separated sockets arranged in clrcular formation tor receiving and supportmg nut picks, the upstandin fl )a-rt bein also formed well within its borders Withsockets for receiving and supporting a nut cracker, substantially as de scribed.

This specification signedand witnessed this 27th day of June A. D. 1916.

MORTON DAVIS.

Witnesses; 1 1

GEORGE F. BENTLEY,

C. SHRIGLEY- sing-the Commissioner of Patents, 

